Quote from: BigDaddyJohn on Mar 26, 2024, 09:46:21 AMWe don't know enough of the xenomorph's biology to know what it's fully capable of. Maybe he's in survival mode, looking almost dead while being not.
We know they're regenerative to some capacity. The novelization of
Alien and script show him being disintegrated and blowing up ala
Alien 3.
When it comes to what we see on film, mostly thanks to limitations of 70s special effects though? He just kind of elegantly floats away and it's shown in repeat.
There's a glaring plot hole in him coming back though. I just now noticed it. No, it's not the vastness of space, oddly enough. I haven't heard this one mentioned so far on this forum.
It's that...in the movie, specifically right after he's blasted away, you hear an audible 'boom'. 1:26 if you don't believe me. No, the 'boom' isn't the engines being turned off, as we can clearly see they're still going...
It undoes whatever justification I and others can come up with too. If he blew up, there's no way he would've actually stayed in the shuttle's relative flight path: He'd be bits and pieces drifting and floating in random areas of deep space.